We haven’t had to put up with bad football this season.
Indeed, we have had the best football seen in years: sharp, crisp, incisive and entertaining.
The issue is, that for not too many reasons which are obvious, in the last seven or eight weeks, we have let all that terrific stuff go hang.
Okay – losing Smith was a blow but we looked like a seriously good team before he gained a regular place in the team.
It’s not enough to say “Ah well, all the other teams have got us sussed now.”
Two factors: the team/squad should be improving not regressing the more they play together. Secondly, it is pretty unchallengeable if I say that the movement off the ball has deteriorated to a major degree.
This is for the manager to address. I, for one, am not seeing the input from the bench to get things back on track.
